I sat down at the desk in my college dorm room and stared at my name on the computer screen in front of me There it was Jonathan Villani my own personal profile on TheFacebook com It was awesome I had just gotten started uploading information on it So far I had listed my name and basic contact info Hey Ben I called to my roommate Look at this We can even rate our professors on here Ben leaned in over my shoulder Cool What else can you do I wish I knew I should have listened more closely when Mark Zuckerberg was talking to his friends about the program in computer Mark Zuckerberg only attended Harvard University for two years before dropping out to run Facebook 5
science class At first I thought he was talking about some science fiction novel he was reading Then I realized he was describing a real Web site he had created for all of the students at Harvard University I should have known he was serious This was the same guy who had invented the CourseMatch and Facemash programs earlier That last one had gotten him in big trouble too something about using photographs without permission TheFacebook com was something else though Facemash had focused on deciding who the most attractive girls on campus were I had to admit it had been fun comparing two photographs and choosing between them Too bad the Web page was shut down before Second Source Find a second source that describes what’s on a current Facebook page Compare the information there to the description of the original Facebook page 6
The Facemash program used student photos without having permission from those students 7
